Three Saudi soldiers have been killed and two others injured during clashes near the Yemeni border, al-Watan newspaper says.
According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the troopers were killed in a rocket attack by Houthis in the southern Najran region Saturday night.
Two other Saudi border guards were also killed during clashes with and Yemeni popular committees backed by Houthi revolutionaries on the kingdom’s border with Yemen on Friday.
Informed sources, requesting anonymity, said the gunfight broke out between the two sides at Akameh region, located in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Najran and near the border with Yemen, Arabic-language news website msader-ye.net reported on Friday.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen continues as Saudi bombers targeted two populated marketplaces in Sa’ada, in northern Yemen, on Saturday, killing at least two civilians and inflicting damage on the city’s infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
According to sources close to the ruling movement, at least a thousand people, including 200 children, have been killed in Yemen since the beginning of the conflict.
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